• Login / Join
  • About
  • •
  • Contact
  • •
  • Advertising
bustler logo
bustler logo
  • News
  • Competitions
  • Events
  • Bustler is powered by Archinect
  • Sign up for Bustler's Email Newsletters

  • Follow these Bustler feeds:

  • Search

    Search in

  • Submit

    What are you submitting?

    News Pitch
    Competition
    Event
  • Login / Join
  • News|Competitions|Events
  • Search
    | Submit
    | Follow
  • Search in

    What are you submitting?

    News Pitch
    Competition
    Event

    Follow these Bustler feeds:

  • About|Contact|Advertising
  • Login / Join

Mateo Arquitectura Starts Construction of Andromède Housing Blocks in Toulouse

By Bustler Editors|

Thursday, Jan 26, 2012

Rendering of the completed housing project (Image: Mateo Arquitectura)

Construction work will shortly begin of the Mateo Arquitectura-designed housing blocks in the Andromède district of Toulouse, France, near the airport of Toulouse-Blagnac. 

Project Description from the Architects:

The site is ready for construction work, which will last 18 months. The project consists of four volumes built around a central garden that will house 104 dwellings, each with a terrace or balcony.

The four buildings share a car-parking floor, which has a waterproofing system to prevent future leakage, as this is a wetland area.

Rendering of the completed housing project (Image: Mateo Arquitectura)

Three of the four blocks are built with brickwork lattice, presenting a harder appearance, and the fourth is built with wood, establishing a contrast with the others.

The underlying premiss of the project is to give the apartments the best orientation, in all cases avoiding the north. Accordingly, all the dwellings in the block on the north side of the site, whether crossventilated or corner apartments, have a double orientation.

Construction site (Image: Mateo Arquitectura)

The building on the north side is the hardest, built with 80% of black materials and 20% of white materials, thereby marking the urban area, which starts with Avenue Andromède. On the central plot, the proportion is inverted (80% white and 20% black) in a tendency to a shiny white that reflects the vegetation in the garden. The third volume on Rue Jacqueline Auriol is grey (50% black, 50% white). The resulting volumes will be lightweight, perceived not as a continuity of colour but as clouds of pixels, a collection of dots that form a volume.

Construction site (Image: Mateo Arquitectura)

Related

toulouse ● residential ● mateo arquitectura ● housing ● france ● europe ● construction ● andromède

Share

  • Follow

    0 Comments

  • Comment as :

Mateo Arquitectura Starts Construction of Andromède Housing Blocks in Toulouse

BIG beats OMA and other major names for new food tech hub in Spain

Sponsored Post by Buildner

Design a new concept of small-scale architecture! MICROHOME / Edition #5 is launched!

Check out Chipperfield & Zeidler's winning design (and other finalists) in Canada's Parliamentary Block 2 redevelopment contest

See the best new architectural photography honored by AIA Los Angeles

AIA Los Angeles' Residential Architecture Awards highlight outstanding housing and home design projects

Sponsored Post by YACademy

Participate in lectures and internships with Lacaton & Vassal, Mariam Kamara, Anupama Kundoo, and others in YACademy's Architecture for Humanity 2022 edition

Northeastern University design research proposal wins AIA's $100,000 Latrobe Prize

A playful London home renovation wins NLA's Don't Move, Improve! 2022 competition

Sign up for Bustler's Email Newsletters

BIG selected as designers of the new Vltava Philharmonic Hall in Prague

Harvard GSD announces four 2022 Wheelwright Prize finalists

Sponsored Post by YACADEMY

Participate in YACademy's internships and lectures with Snøhetta, Souto de Moura, and Dorte Mandrup in "Architecture for Landscape" 2022 edition

Grafton Architects co-founders headline this year's crop of 2022 Daylight Award laureates

What form should disruption take architecturally? CEPT University professor Arijit Chatterjee is after an answer as the 2021 Steedman Fellow

Check out the latest crop of schools and learning centers selected for AIA's 2022 Education Facility Design Awards

Arup to be recognized with the National Building Museum's Honor Award

Next page » Loading

Mateo Arquitectura Starts Construction of Andromède Housing Blocks in Toulouse

By Bustler Editors|

Thursday, Jan 26, 2012

Share

Rendering of the completed housing project (Image: Mateo Arquitectura)

Related

toulouse ● residential ● mateo arquitectura ● housing ● france ● europe ● construction ● andromède

Construction work will shortly begin of the Mateo Arquitectura-designed housing blocks in the Andromède district of Toulouse, France, near the airport of Toulouse-Blagnac. 

Project Description from the Architects:

The site is ready for construction work, which will last 18 months. The project consists of four volumes built around a central garden that will house 104 dwellings, each with a terrace or balcony.

The four buildings share a car-parking floor, which has a waterproofing system to prevent future leakage, as this is a wetland area.

Rendering of the completed housing project (Image: Mateo Arquitectura)

Three of the four blocks are built with brickwork lattice, presenting a harder appearance, and the fourth is built with wood, establishing a contrast with the others.

The underlying premiss of the project is to give the apartments the best orientation, in all cases avoiding the north. Accordingly, all the dwellings in the block on the north side of the site, whether crossventilated or corner apartments, have a double orientation.

Construction site (Image: Mateo Arquitectura)

The building on the north side is the hardest, built with 80% of black materials and 20% of white materials, thereby marking the urban area, which starts with Avenue Andromède. On the central plot, the proportion is inverted (80% white and 20% black) in a tendency to a shiny white that reflects the vegetation in the garden. The third volume on Rue Jacqueline Auriol is grey (50% black, 50% white). The resulting volumes will be lightweight, perceived not as a continuity of colour but as clouds of pixels, a collection of dots that form a volume.

Construction site (Image: Mateo Arquitectura)

Share

  • Follow

    0 Comments

  • Comment as :

Archinect JobsArchinect Jobs

The Archinect Job Board attracts the world's top architectural design talents.

VIEW ALL JOBS POST A JOB

Director - Architecture & Project Management- Los Angeles,CA or Orange,CA

AECOM

Director - Architecture & Project Management- Los Angeles,CA or Orange,CA

Los Angeles, CA, US

Interior Architect

BCV Architecture + Interiors

Interior Architect

New York, NY, US

Architectural Materials Librarian

Marmol Radziner

Architectural Materials Librarian

Los Angeles, CA, US

Expert Architectural Designers

JIVE Architecture

Expert Architectural Designers

Project Manager/Designer

Urban A&O

Project Manager/Designer

New York, NY, US

Project Architect II (Hybrid)

Perkins Eastman

Project Architect II (Hybrid)

Stamford, CT, US

Architect II

StudioMB

Architect II

Washington, DC, US

Architect/Designer

AE Superlab

Architect/Designer

Brooklyn, NY, US

Interior Design Director

DXA Studio

Interior Design Director

New York, NY, US

design assistant, temporary

asap/ adam sokol architecture practice

design assistant, temporary

Los Angeles, CA, US

Next page » Loading